diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
index ca45d9b06..2da7f665e 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Copy.java
@@ -400,9 +400,9 @@ public class Copy extends Task {
         }
 
         try {
-        // make sure we don't have an illegal set of options
+            // make sure we don't have an illegal set of options
             try {
-        validateAttributes();
+                validateAttributes();
             } catch (BuildException e) {
                 if (failonerror
                     || !getMessage(e)